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• Yellow Book n. The print version of this Jargon File
  The New Hacker's Dictionary" from MIT Press; The book includes essentially all the material the File, plus a Foreword by Guy L....
• quux: /kwuhks/ [Mythically, from the Latin semi-deponent verb quuxo, quuxare, quuxandum iri
  oun form variously `quux' (plural `quuces', anglicized to `quuxes') and `quuxu' (genitive plural is `quuxuum', for four u-letters out of seven in all, using up all the `u' letters in Scrabble)....
• Lions Book n. "Source Code and Commentary on Unix level 6", by John Lions.
  The two parts of this book contained (1) the entire source listing of the Unix Version 6 kernel, and (2) a commentary on the source discussing the algorithms....
• Aluminum Book: [MIT] n. "Common LISP: The Language", by Guy L.
  Steele Jr. (Digital Press, first edition 1984, second edition 1990)....
• foo /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp.
  programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples....
• White Book: n. 1. Syn. {K&R}. 2. Adobe's fourth book in the PostScript series, describing the previously-secret format of Type 1 fo
  Adobe Type 1 Font Format, version 1.1", (Addison-Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0-201-57044-0)....
• Lions Book: n. "Source Code and Commentary on UNIX level 6", by John Lions.
  The two parts of this book contained (1) the entire source listing of the UNIX Version 6 kernel, and (2) a commentary on the source discussing the algorithms....
• Weenix: /wee'niks/ [ITS] n. A derogatory term for {{UNIX}}, derived from {UNIX weenie}.
  According to one noted ex-ITSer, it is "the operating system preferred by Unix Weenie...
• Technobabble: John Barry MIT Press 1991 ISBN 0-262-02333-4 Barry's book takes a critical and humorous look at the `technobabble' of acronym
  eologisms, hyperbole, and metaphor spawned by the computer industry....